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Fernanda Oliveira and Jeffrey Cirio in Coppélia

Solstice

Choreography Hynd, Khan, Petipa, MacMillan, Lopez Ochoa, Quagebeur, Deane, Fo...

English National Ballet

Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre

16–26 June 2021

Contemporary Cuts 2021

Choreography Amaury Lebrun, Demis Volpi, Jonathan Watkins, Cathy Marston. Ken...

Northern Ballet

Sadler's Wells

11–12 June 2021

Balanchine and Robbins

Choreography George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, music Stravinsky, Tchaikov...

The Royal Ballet

Royal Opera House

11 June–11 July 2021

Dangerous Liaisons

Choreography David Nixon, music Antonio Vivaldi

Northern Ballet

Sadler's Wells

8–10 June 2021

Draw from Within

Choreography and director Wim Vandekeybus

Rambert

Sadler’s Wells

2–5 June 2021

21st Century Choreographers: Within the Golden Hour; Optional Family: A Divertissement; The Statement; Solo Echo

Christopher Wheeldon, Kyle Abraham, Crystal Pite

The Royal Ballet

Royal Opera House

28 May–27 June 2021

Draw From Within

Wim Vandekeybus

Rambert

Theatre Royal Plymouth

27 May 2021

Here Come the Boys

Choreographed by Gareth Walker

Steven Howard for The TCB Group and David Shepherd for TEG MJR

London Palladium

25 May–9 June 2021

The Theatre Channel Episode Six: Showstoppers

Various

Adam Blanshay Productions

The Theatre Café

21–28 May 2021

Reunion: Senseless Kindness; Laid in Earth; Take Five Blues; Echoes; Jolly Folly

Yuri Possokhov; Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui; Stina Quagebeur; Russell Maliphant; Ari...

English National Ballet

Sadler's Wells

17–30 May 2021

Macho

Michael Heatley and the company

Hit the Ground Running Dance Theatre Company

From 10 May 2021

J’Ouvert

Yasmin Joseph

Sonia Friedman Productions / BBC Four and iPlayer

Harold Pinter Theatre

26 April 2021–25 March 2022

Romeo and Juliet

Krzyztof Pastor, music by Sergei Prokofiev

Polish National Ballet

Teatr Wielki, Warsaw, Poland

16 April–15 September 2021

News

ROH Unlocked festival

24 June 2021

Royal Opera House and Covent Garden will partner for festival of creativity: ROH Unlocked, a month-long programme of cultural events.

Royal Ballet and Imperfect Pointes sustainable activewear

24 June 2021

Stockport-based Imperfect Pointes has teamed up with The Royal Ballet for the launch of a new range of sustainable activewear.

McGregor's Future Self at Venice Biennale Danza

21 June 2021

Random International and Company Wayne McGregor will present Future Self as part of McGregor’s inaugural programme as Director of the Venice Biennale Danza.

Akram Khan and Jeffrey Cirio rehearse Creature

ENB performs Akram Khan's Creature

21 June 2021

English National Ballet's world première of Creature by Akram Khan will take place at Sadler’s Wells, London.

Beauty Mixed Programme at ROH

20 June 2021

In honour of the Royal Ballet founder Dame Ninette de Valois, the Beauty Mixed Programme features work across the generations from the third act of The Sleeping Beauty to a world première.

London Children's Ballet's Anne of Green Gables

London Children's Ballet Green Gables auditions

18 June 2021

Registration to audition for Anne of Green Gables at The Peacock Theatre is now open to dancers aged 9–16 years.

Bodywork Company new commercial dance course

18 June 2021

Bodywork Company announces new commercial dance course lead by industry professionals.

KVN's Coppelia at The Cockpit

18 June 2021

KVN Dance Company will première Kevan Allen’s reimagined version of the classical ballet Coppelia at The Cockpit.

First Macho, now Suitcases

15 June 2021

Hit the Ground Running Dance Theatre follows Macho with a new production, Suitcases.

Big Yellow Dance Studio opens in Battersea

11 June 2021

London Children’s Ballet will formally open to the public as part of Wandsworth Arts Fringe.

PDSW, Yorke Dance and New Adventures free outdoor performances

11 June 2021

A series of free outdoor performances will bring dance to audiences across Bournemouth and get people dancing in the streets.

Live performances return to Elmhurst

11 June 2021

After a 15-month live performance hiatus, the summer programme opens with the graduate year students of Elmhurst Ballet Company in Proxemics and concludes with the whole school performing in Elevate.

7 Fingers autumn circus tour

10 June 2021

The UK première of Passagers from Canadian circus company The 7 Fingers opens at Birmingham Hippodrome.

Emergence three!

3 June 2021

Emergence, the touring company formed from MA dance students from the University of Salford, is to tour a triple bill of works.

Freedom tour heads to Manchester

3 June 2021

Strictly star Johannes Radebe brings his first UK tour to Manchester Opera House.

Royal Ballet presents Lynne Page and Nadine Shah film

29 May 2021

Choreographer Lynne Page's Lyssa will feature 17 Royal Ballet female dancers, celebrated British recording artist Nadine Shah and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House.

Moving Forward, Looking Back on lockdown

29 May 2021

Moving Forward, Looking Back #2020 from Abundant Art is a new documentary charting the effects of the pandemic on the performing arts.

New outdoor performance from Greenwich Dance

29 May 2021

This summer, Greenwich Dance will present From Greenwich with Love, a new work by choreographer and Rendez-Vous Dance artistic director Mathieu Geffré.

In-person events at Leicester dance festival

28 May 2021

Arts and heritage organisation Serendipity, which produces the Let’s Dance International Frontiers festival in Leiceste,r has announced a weekend of in-person events.

Panel to discuss West Midlands’ dance diversity

25 May 2021

Birmingham Royal Ballet and Kauma Arts are to hold a free panel discussion and question-and-answer session as part of Birmingham International Dance Festival's industry professionals programme.

Scandalous dance in Salford

23 May 2021

Northern Ballet is commencing its first national tour in over a year with performances of Dangerous Liaisons at The Lowry, Salford.

Alvin Ailey Dance Theater with Testament by Matthew Rushing which will be shown at the festival

Summer dance festival releases digital programme

23 May 2021

The programme for the all-digital summer edition of Birmingham International Dance Festival contains 18 newly commissioned dance films and more than 70 online events.

Young people in dance film about mental health

21 May 2021

The Rural Touring Dance Initiative and Beaford have commissioned a dance film about the importance of space and time off for mental health from choreographer Joshua Nash.

ENB dances for dementia

21 May 2021

For Dementia Action Week, English National Ballet has announced plans to support people whose lives are affected by dementia.

Royal Ballet promotions

21 May 2021

Director of The Royal Ballet Kevin O’Hare has announced promotions for the 2020/21 and 2021/22 seasons.

Open call for dance summer residency

21 May 2021

Sadler’s Wells has put out an open call for the National Youth Dance Company and Candoco Dance Company Summer Residency for disabled and non-disabled dancers aged 16–-24.

Control dancers remotely in online installation

21 May 2021

New Movement Collective's interactive dance installation Project XO has been reimagined as a remote digital experience.

ENBS upcoming performances and a future plans

14 May 2021

English National Ballet School has announced Young Choreographers, its 2021 summer performance and plans for the future.

Friday première: Royal Ballet’s Spring Draft Works

13 May 2021

ROH online showcases The Royal Ballet’s Spring Draft Works from promising choreographers from within the company filmed on the main stage of the Royal Opera House.

Young NDCW associates inspired by Artes Mundi

13 May 2021

National Dance Company Wales’ Young Associates will première new digital film Now Begin at the U Dance Cymru 2021 Digital Dance Day and on AM Cymru.

Meet young Royal Ballet dancers online

4 May 2021

The Royal Ballet will stream a behind-the-scenes glimpse into class with its youngest members, when they will share their thoughts on joining the world-famous ballet company.

One Dance and BBC funding opportunities

4 May 2021

BBC Arts and One Dance UK are inviting dance companies, independent artists, choreographers and technical partners to apply for funding to create short-form films and interactive projects.

Gwyn Emberton becomes Jones the Dance

4 May 2021

Jones the Dance / Y Ddawns is to be the new name for Gwyn Emberton Dance.

New London date for Polunin Romeo

2 May 2021

Sergei Polunin's twice-postponed London debut as Romeo at The Royal Albert Hall is now scheduled for Wednesday 1 December 2021.

Barrowland Ballet's interactive Family Portrait

2 May 2021

An interactive video installation, Family Portrait, will be at Glasgow's Tramway and Edinburgh's Assembly Roxy (Edinburgh International Children’s Festival).

Dance festival to return to Birmingham

30 April 2021

Birmingham International Dance Festival returns in 2021 with an online summer edition followed by an autumn edition with a live outdoor programme.

Royal Opera House thanks the NHS

27 April 2021

Royal Opera House will present a Thank You NHS programme of live ballet and opera and a special performance by the Royal Opera Chorus for hospital radios around the UK.

ENB stages Reunion at Sadler's Wells

25 April 2021

English National Ballet returns to the stage after more than a year from 17 to 30 May with Reunion at Sadler’s Wells, London.

Barre Project on Sadler's Wells Digital Stage

25 April 2021

William Forsythe and CLI Studios’ The Barre Project is to be available online in May for ten days.

Homecoming for North East dance company

17 April 2021

North East dance company Eliot Smith Dance has announced its return to live performances with Homecoming, a series of four new works.

Challenging men’s mental health stigma

16 April 2021

Macho, a new dance film from North East based Hit the Ground Running Dance Theatre Company, confronts the stigma still attached to male mental health problems.

Odedra's solo Rising

16 April 2021

Aakash Odedra's solo show Rising, with choreography by Akram Khan, Russell Maliphant, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Odedra, will open at Curve Leicester before touring.

ROH free Sleeping Beauty insight

15 April 2021

The Royal Opera House will present a free stream of a special Insight from 2016 celebrating The Sleeping Beauty.

Protein promenades En Route

15 April 2021

Luca Silvestrini's Protein's newest dance work, En Route, will be an outdoor promenade piece around their home borough of Woolwich.

Big Pulse new dance commissions

15 April 2021

Big Pulse Dance Alliance, a network of 12 dance festivals and institutions, has launched commissions and activities to develop and strengthen the contemporary dance sector across Europe.

National programme for dancers with Parkinson's

14 April 2021

Danielle Teale Dance has been awarded a significant grant from Arts Council England to expand the reach of its Collective IDentity (CID) Project with dancers with Parkinson’s.

Nominations open for One Dance UK Awards

14 April 2021

Following a record year in 2020, which generated more than 1,000 nominations and reached more than 100,000 people, nominations for the One Dance UK Awards 2021 are now open.

Still dancing in Sadler's Wells exhibition

14 April 2021

Movement in still form is an exhibition of dance photography by Camilla Greenwell for Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage to celebrate International Dance Day.

Rosie Kay première to reopen Birmingham REP

11 April 2021

Birmingham choreographer Rosie Kay’s return to the stage with the première of her new solo work will be the first performance when Birmingham REP reopens after lockdown.

ENB dancers in rehearsal for Akram Khan's Creature

ENB 2021–22 season and company updates

9 April 2021

English National Ballet's new season features Khan's Creature, Rojo's Raymonda, The Forsythe Evening, Nutcracker and a celebratory Emerging Dancer event.

Greenwich Dance awarded £58k grant

9 April 2021

Greenwich Dance has been awarded a grant of £58k from the second round of the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund.

DanceWest three new trustees

9 April 2021

DanceWest's new trustees are former Evening Standard and The Independent video chief Mars El Brogy, Frantic Assembly Executive Director Kerry Whelan and wellbeing coach Jon Chu.

Experience dance in a “new and exciting way”: Rambert’s Summer Livestream

Hippodrome and Rambert to broadcast two new works

8 April 2021

Birmingham Hippodrome and Rambert have revealed that they will join together to broadcast two new dance works to audiences across the world, Summer Livestream, in July 2021.

My First Ballet: Swan Lake on ENB at Home

7 April 2021

An hour-long, specially adapted version of Swan Lake is now available English National Ballet’s digital platform.

Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance launch Rep Studios

6 April 2021

New digital platform Rep Studios' first season includes Smile, Islander, two digital premières from Scottish Dance Theatre and a new mini-festival This Is For You Dundee.

Sadler's Wells receives Culture Recovery loan

4 April 2021

Sadler’s Wells has been awarded a loan of £4,250,000 from the UK Government's Culture Recovery Fund.

Rambert School is Moving Forward

3 April 2021

Rambert School's new film, Moving Forward, brings together seven short original dance works choreographed, performed and filmed by the students during lockdown.

ROH Friday Première: Royal Ballet’s Symphonic Variations

1 April 2021

On Friday 2 April, The Royal Ballet will stream Symphonic Variations from 2017, Frederick Ashton’s 1946 piece which celebrates its 75th anniversary this month.

ROH booking for Brecht’s and Weill’s Deadly Sins and Mahagonny

30 March 2021

The Royal Opera House will stream Bertolt Brecht’s and Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins and Mahagonny Songspiel live from Covent Garden on 9 April.

Impermanence and Bristol Old Vic double bill

30 March 2021

Bristol Old Vic and Impermanence will continue their creative partnership with a new double bill of online dance work.

Launch of Just Us Hip Hop Apprentice Co

30 March 2021

As Just Us Dance Theatre launches its new apprenticeship company with a mixed bill of Hip Hop works by Joseph Toonga, Kenrick Sandy, Shawn Aimey and Shanelle ‘Tali’ Fergus.

Still Touch from Richard Chappell

30 March 2021

Still Touch is a new film version of Richard Chappell Dance's 2018 work of the same name that explores the need for human contact and connections.

Birmingham Royal Ballet director Carlos Acosta and Birmingham REP artistic director Sean Foley

Two world premières for Birmingham Royal Ballet at REP

28 March 2021

A partnership between Birmingham Royal Ballet and Birmingham REP is to continue with live performances in June 2021 featuring two world premières.

Royal Opera House new season highlights

28 March 2021

The Royal Opera House's first full season since 2019 features 11 new productions—including 5 world premières—and 20 revivals.

PDSW dancing invisibly in the streets

25 March 2021

Pavilion Dance South West will be dancing in the streets with the English première of Elisabeth Schilling's Invisible Dances.

Sadler's Wells May to September 2021

25 March 2021

Sadler’s Wells will welcome audiences back from 17 May with seven productions scheduled up to the start of September 2021.